Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers for mode-locked laser operation near 1 μm

Author

Schmidt, Andreas ; Rivier, Simon ; Steinmeyer, Gunter ; Petrov, Valentin ; Griebner, Uwe ; Yim, Jong Hyuk ; Cho, Won Bae ; Lee, Soonil ; Rotermund, And Fabian

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst., Berlin

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers were designed for passive mode-locking near 1 mum. Using Yb:KYW and Yb:KLuW, nearly transform-limited sub-150 fs pulses were generated at 1037 nm and 1048 nm, respectively.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; laser beams; laser mode locking; lutetium compounds; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; potassium compounds; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; C; KLu(WO₄)₂:Yb; KY(WO₄)₂:Yb; mode-locked laser operation; passive mode-locking; single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers; transform-limited pulse generation; wavelength 1037 nm; wavelength 1048 nm; Carbon nanotubes; Dielectric substrates; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Pulsed laser deposition; Ultrafast optics; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5680) Rare earth and transition metal solid-state lasers; (160.4236) Nanomaterials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571282